EP2795354A1 - Isotropic and integrated optical pumping magnetometer - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of optically pumped magnetometers.
- Optical pumping magnetometers have been known for several decades. They are based on magnetic resonance between Zeeman lines, amplified using optical pumping. For example, in a magnetometer of this type using a helium cell ( 4 He) the helium atoms at level 1 So are excited at the metastable level 2 3 Si by means of an HF discharge. This metastable level 2 3 Si is divided into a Zeeman triplet in the presence of a static magnetic field. Level 2 3 Si atoms are optically pumped to level 2 3 P 0 using a tunable laser. This results in a different depletion of the different lines of the triplet, by selective excitation at level 2 3 P 0 .
- the excited atoms return by spontaneous emission at the metastable level 2 3 Si.
- Magnetic resonance is induced between the levels of the triplet by means of an RF field at the Larmor frequency.
- the amplitude of the resonance signal is amplified by optical pumping.
- the resonance is observed by means of an absorption peak at the output of the cell.
- F O ⁇ ⁇ is the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron.
- Such a magnetometer measuring the modulus of the magnetic field is also called a scalar magnetometer in the literature.
- FIG. 1 A detailed description of an optically pumped magnetometer can be found in EP-A-579,537.
- a magnetometer is illustrated in FIG. 1. It comprises a cell 10 filled with helium, a laser 14 emitting a beam 15, at a wavelength tuned to the difference in energy between the levels 2 3 P 0 and 2 3 Si of 4 He, a polarizer 16 having a linear polarization P, a photodetector 24 receiving the beam 18 having passed through the cell, a frequency servocontrol controlling an RF frequency generator 22, a frequency estimator 26 and an RF discharge circuit 30.
- the discharge circuit 30 passes the helium atoms from the ground level 1 S 0 to the metastable level 2 3 Si by means of a high frequency electrostatic discharge between two electrodes placed on the cell.
- the RF frequency generator supplies current to two coils 56 1 and 56 2 , of orthogonal axes, surrounding the cell 10 so as to generate a radiofrequency magnetic field within the latter.
- the axes of the two coils and the direction of propagation of the beam form a rectangle trihedron.
- the RF magnetic field generated by the coils induces a resonance between the levels of the Zeeman triplet.
- the magnetometer comprises a first frequency servocontrol circuit
- the frequency control of the magnetometer can be realized from the continuous component LA ⁇ of the signal ⁇ at the output of the photodetector or from the component LA 2 (as represented in FIG. 1), at the frequency twice the frequency of Larmor.
- the second servocontrol circuit 40 controls a motor 46 regulating the angular position ⁇ of the polarizer 16 and therefore the polarization direction P so as to obtain the maximum amplitude of the resonance signal. It can be shown that if ⁇ is the angle between the direction of polarization and that of the ambient magnetic field, B 0 , the continuous component L of the signal ⁇ at the output of the photodetector evolves into
- the third servo-control circuit 50 includes a polarization angle sensor 52 delivering two signals proportional to sin ⁇ and cosçp, and two multipliers 54 x 54 and 2 respectively multiplying these two signals with the RF signal.
- the signals produced respectively feed the coils 56 1 and 56 2 so that the magnetic field RF, B RF , always has the same direction as the polarization P of the beam.
- the servocontrol circuits 40 and 50 therefore permanently maintain the orthogonality between the polarization P and the ambient magnetic field B 0 , on the one hand and the alignment of the magnetic field B RF on the polarization P, on the other hand.
- the conditions of the resonance detection are optimal and do not depend on the relative orientation of the magnetometer with respect to the field B 0 .
- Such a magnetometer is qualified for this reason isotropic.
- the motor must be non-magnetic in the sense that it must not disturb the ambient magnetic field, especially since the polarizer must preferably be placed near the cell.
- the rotation of the motor generates micro-vibrations and optical coupling variations that can themselves disturb the measurement.
- the object of the present invention is therefore to provide an optically pumped magnetometer, isotropic, which does not have the aforementioned drawbacks and which is ready for integration, for example for an embedded or space-based application.
- the present invention is defined by an optically pumped magnetometer comprising a cell filled with a gas, a laser source emitting a light beam, a photodetector receiving the beam having passed through the cell and providing an electrical signal, a first and a second coils of orthogonal axes surrounding the cell and powered by a radio frequency generator to generate a radio frequency magnetic field, first servo means receiving said electrical signal and adapted to slave the frequency of the radio frequency generator to the Larmor frequency, second means of servocontrol adapted to maintain the direction of polarization of the input beam of the orthogonal cell to the magnetic field to be measured, third servocontrol means adapted to maintain the direction of the radiofrequency field identical to the polarization direction, said magnetometer comprising a polarization rotator to c liquid ristal receiving the light beam and being adapted to rotate the polarization direction, said polarization rotator being controlled by a control signal provided by the second servo means.
- the third servo-control means receive said control signal, derive a pair of trigonometric coefficients giving the angular position of said polarization direction and feed the first and second coils with currents at the frequency of the radio frequency generator and amplitudes. respective proportional to said coefficients.
- the said trigonometric coefficients are typically provided by a memory containing rotational angle of rotation curves as a function of the control signal for a plurality of operating temperatures.
- the second servocontrol means perform a synchronous detection of the electrical signal at the frequency of the radiofrequency generator and generates the control signal from the quadrature component of said electrical signal at this frequency.
- control signal is validated by means of a logic gate by a validation signal, prior to its application to the polarization rotator, said validation signal being obtained by comparison between an indicator and a predetermined threshold value, said indicator being selected from the module of the DC component of the electrical signal and the module of the component of the same signal at a frequency twice the frequency of the frequency generator.
- the polarization rotator comprises:
- a delay plate located between the first and second quarter wave plates and constituted by a liquid crystal cell whose bisector between its neutral axes coincides with a neutral axis of the first quarter-wave plate and a neutral axis of the second quarter-wave plate.
- the polarization rotator comprises:
- a delay plate located between the first and second quarter wave plates and constituted by a liquid crystal cell
- a polarizer upstream of the first quarter-wave plate in the direction of propagation of said beam, the polarizer polarizing said beam in a direction bisecting the neutral axes of the first quarter-wave plate.
- the polarization rotator comprises:
- a delay plate located upstream of the quarter-wave plate in the direction of propagation of the beam, consisting of a liquid crystal cell, and whose bisector between its neutral axes coincides with a neutral axis of the quarter wave plate, the input beam of the polarization rotator being polarized in a direction bisecting the neutral axes of the delay plate.
- the magnetometer is advantageously embodied in an integrated manner, the laser then being a vertical cavity laser diode emitting by the surface, the polarization rotator being disposed directly on said surface of the laser diode, and the gas filled cell being disposed on the face output of the polarization rotator.
- the first quarter-wave plate may be disposed on said surface of the laser diode and the gas-filled crystal cell may be disposed on the second quarter-wave plate, the liquid crystal cell then being taken into consideration. sandwich between the first and second quarter wave blades.
- Fig. 1 schematically represents an optical pump magnetometer known from the state of the art
- Fig. 2 schematically shows an optically pumped magnetometer according to one embodiment of the invention
- Fig. 3A shows a first embodiment of a polarization rotator used in the magnetometer of FIG. 2;
- Fig. 3B illustrates the principle of the polarization rotator of FIG. 3A on the sphere of Poincaré
- Fig. 3C shows an example of a calibration curve for the polarization rotator of FIG. 3A
- Fig. 4 shows a second embodiment of a polarization rotator used in the magnetometer of FIG. 2;
- Fig. 5 shows a third embodiment of a polarization rotator used in the magnetometer of FIG. 2;
- Fig. 6 represents an exemplary integrated embodiment of the magnetometer of the
- the basic principle of the invention is to use a liquid crystal polarization rotator in place of the motorized polarizer of the prior art.
- a polarization rotator makes it possible to rotate the polarization direction of a polarized wave rectilinearly.
- a liquid crystal polarization rotator has no moving mechanical element and has a weak magnetic signature (in the sense that it does not disturb the ambient magnetic field). It is also likely to be integrated in a compact structure as we will see later
- Fig. 2 shows an optically pumped magnetometer according to one embodiment of the invention.
- the magnetometer in FIG. 2 comprises a laser 14, an optional rectilinear polarizer 16a, a liquid crystal polarization rotator 16b, a cell 10 filled with gas, generally helium or an alkaline gas, a photodetector 24 receiving the beam 18 having passed through the cell a first frequency control circuit 20 controlling an RF frequency generator 22, a frequency estimator 26 and an RF discharge circuit 30.
- the RF frequency generator supplies current to two coils 56 1 and 56 2 of orthogonal axes. surrounding cell 10 as before. The axes of the two coils and the direction of propagation of the beam form a rectangle trihedron.
- the magnetometer further comprises a second servocontrol circuit 40 controlling the polarization rotation of the rotator 16b and a third servocontrol circuit 50 controlling the direction of the radiofrequency magnetic field.
- the second servocontrol circuit 40 receives the signal ⁇ coming from the photodetector and makes, by means of the module 41, a synchronous detection at the frequency RF supplied by the frequency synthesizer 22.
- the continuous component LA 0 or the component at the second harmonic of the RF frequency LA 2 is advantageously used in addition to LA®. .
- its intensity is compared with a threshold value Th in a comparator 42. If the intensity of the component LA tJ (or
- the comparator validates the error signal LA by means of the logic gate 43.
- the voltage from the error signal LAf is also transmitted to a conversion module 55 of the third servocontrol circuit 50.
- This conversion module supplies signals proportional to cos and ⁇ from the value of the voltage in question.
- ⁇ ⁇ 0 + ⁇
- ⁇ the polarization rotation angle
- ⁇ 0 the angle to be imposed when the voltage is zero to maintain the alignment between the magnetic field B RF and the polarization direction P .
- it comprises for example a memory (look-up table) in which are stored calibration curves of the angle of rotation of the polarization as a function of the voltage applied to the polarization rotator. These calibration curves relate to different operating temperatures. For a given temperature and a value of voltage applied, the memory provides a pair of values proportional to cosçz? and s in ⁇ (or only the angle ⁇ , the trigonometric calculation being done outside).
- the polarizer 16a at the input of the polarization rotator 16b can be dispensed with if the beam emitted by the laser 14 already has a linear polarization or a high extinction ratio (compatible with the percentage of maximum acceptable ellipticity for a magnetometer) .
- the polarization direction at the input of the rotator can be arbitrary. However, as will be seen below, for certain types of rotators, the polarization direction at the input of the rotator can be fixed by the rotator.
- the frequency synthesizer (or the voltage controlled oscillator) 22 is driven by the frequency servo circuit 20.
- This uses an error signal generated by a synchronous detection module.
- This module performs a synchronous detection of the signal ⁇ from the photodetector at a reference frequency and outputs either the DC component L or the resonance signal module LA ⁇ at twice the Larmor frequency.
- the frequency control can be obtained indifferently from one or other of these components.
- the RF frequency, F is
- the intensity of the ambient magnetic field, B 0 is given, at the gyromagnetic ratio, by a frequency estimator 26 directly estimating the frequency F of the output signal of the synthesizer 22 or, indirectly, from the control signal of the latter .
- the magnetometer may include means for servocontrolling the wavelength of the laser, in a manner known per se.
- Fig. 3A represents a first example of a polarization rotator 16b that can to be used in an optically pumped magnetometer according to the invention.
- the polarization rotator comprises a first quarter wave plate 310, a liquid crystal variable delay blade 320 and a second quarter wave plate 330. These different elements are made of a birefringent material and for each element are designated by s the slow axis and / the fast axis.
- the fast axis of the second quarter wave plate coincides with the slow axis of the first and the slow axis of the second quarter wave plate coincides with the fast axis of the first.
- the bisector of the neutral lines (that is to say the slow and fast axes, hereinafter referred to as neutral axes) of the variable delay blade is oriented so as to be aligned on a neutral axis of the first and second quarter blades. wave. In practice, the alignment between the two quarter wave plates, on the one hand, and between each of the quarter wave plates and the variable delay blade, on the other hand, will have to be carried out to the nearest degree.
- a quarter-wave plate transforms an incident wave with rectilinear polarization into an elliptically polarized wave whose axes are the neutral axes of this plate.
- variable delay blade modifies the ellipticity of this polarization without modifying the direction of its own axes.
- the second quarter-wave plate transforms the elliptically polarized wave originating from the delay plate 320 into a linearly polarized output wave since the proper axes of the polarization coincide with its neutral axes.
- the output wave has a rectilinear polarization oriented in a direction rotated with respect to the polarization direction of the incident wave.
- the equator of the Poincaré sphere represents the rectilinear polarizations and the poles the circular polarizations (right and left). All other points of the sphere correspond to elliptical polarizations. When one travels a meridian of the sphere, the proper axes of the polarization remain unchanged, only the ellipticity varies.
- the polarization of the incident wave is represented on the sphere by the point A.
- This polarization can be here of any direction (the point A is situated at any point of the equator).
- Point B corresponds to the polarization at the output of the first quarter-wave plate. It is deduced from A by a rotation around the axis OLi (arc 351).
- the point C corresponds to the polarization at the output of the variable delay blade 320. It is deduced from point B by a rotation about the axis OV (arc 352).
- the angle of rotation (or the length of the meridian arc) is a function of the delay introduced by the blade 320.
- the point D corresponds to the polarization at the output of the second quarter-wave plate. It is deduced from the point C by a rotation around the axis OL 2 . It will be noted that the angle between the straight lines OA and OD is equal to twice the rotational angle a of the polarization induced by the rot
- variable delay blade consists of a nematic liquid crystal cell with homogeneous anchoring (cell in the ON state at rest) or homeotropic (cell in the OFF state at rest), with the convention that in the state OFF, the liquid crystal cell does not perform polarization rotation.
- the liquid crystal is advantageously a nonmagnetic nematic liquid crystal. It will be possible to use for this purpose the liquid crystal marketed by Merck TM under the reference MLC2062. This liquid crystal is further characterized by a high birefringence and a low viscosity. Alternatively, the liquid crystal marketed by the firm DIC under the reference 9BD-25 may be used.
- the choice of the liquid crystal will result from a compromise between thickness, birefringence (difference between the fast index and the slow index of the liquid crystal) and response time, as explained below.
- the delay induced by the delay plate, and thus the polarization rotation, is depending on the voltage applied to the liquid crystal cell, the thickness of this layer and the operating temperature.
- the maximum angle of rotation of the polarization is proportional to the thickness of the liquid crystal layer. To obtain an isotropic magnetometer, it is necessary that this maximum angle is at least 180 °. Thus it is certain to be able to make the polarization P orthogonal to B 0 .
- the thickness of the liquid crystal layer may result from a compromise between the maximum angle of rotation of the polarization and its response time. Indeed, the response time of the liquid crystal layer (and therefore the magnetometer) is proportional to the square of its thickness. By way of example, the thickness of the liquid crystal layer will be between 5 ⁇ m and 10 ⁇ m for M LC2062.
- the birefringence of the liquid crystal depends on the operating temperature. At each operating temperature corresponds a curve of calibration giving the angle of rotation of the polarization as a function of the applied voltage.
- Fig. 3C gives an example of a curve of caiibration for a liquid crystal cell M LC2062 of 10 ⁇ thick at a temperature of 20 ° C.
- polarization rotation is, as a first approximation, inversely proportional to the square of the applied voltage. At each temperature corresponds a different coefficient of proportionality.
- the polarization rotator is calibrated for an operating temperature range of, for example, 10 ° C to 50 ° C, each calibration curve (or each proportionality coefficient) used to calculate the data stored in the memory of the conversion module 55
- Fig. 4 shows a second embodiment of a polarization rotator that can be used in an optically pumped magnetometer according to the invention.
- This rotator differs from that of FIG. 3 by the presence of an input polarizer 305 upstream of the first quarter wave plate 310. It assumes that the incident wave has a rectilinear polarization coinciding with that of the polarizer 305. By example, the laser 14 directly supplies a wave polarized linearly in this direction and the polarizer 16a is absent.
- the polarization direction of the polarizer 305 is oriented so as to coincide with the bisector of the neutral axes of the first quarter-wave plate.
- This configuration has two advantages. First, since the polarization at the output of the first quarter-wave plate is circular, the delay plate 320 can be oriented in any manner with respect to the latter (its orientation relative to the second quarter-wave plate is however constrained by the same condition as before).
- the assembly constituted by the polarizer and the first quarter-wave plate constitutes an optical isolator: a reflection downstream of the first quarter-wave plate (for example on the upstream face of the variable-delay blade 320) is translated by a reflected wave, circularly polarized propagating in the opposite direction of the incident wave, reflected wave which is transformed by the same blade into a rectilinear polarization wave having a direction of polarization orthogonal to that of the polarizer.
- the operation of the polarization rotator is identical to the previous one. Note that on the sphere of Poincaré, the point A coincides here with the point V and the point B corresponds to the higher pole.
- Optical block means a set of optical elements whose relative orientation around the common optical axis is fixed, for example by means of a mechanical connection between these elements.
- such a rotator is robust with respect to possible misalignment between elements of the first optical block (input polarizer and first quarter wave plate) as well as a misalignment between the first and second optical blocks (ie between the neutral axes of the first and second quarter wave plates). More specifically, such an assembly with two optical blocks introduces only a small ellipticity output of the polarization rotator: a polarized wave rectilinearly in the direction of polarization input is transformed into a polarized wave rectilinearly, turned from an angle a.
- the assembly with two optical blocks 301 and 302 does not require precise alignment on an optical bench (the alignment between the two optical blocks is simply performed in situ) and is therefore particularly easy to implement.
- Fig. 5 shows a third embodiment of a polarization rotator that can be used in an optically pumped magnetometer according to the invention.
- This polarization rotator has a simpler structure than the previous two since the first quarter wave plate is removed. It assumes, however, that the direction of polarization of the incident wave coincides with the bisector of the neutral axes of the delay plate (or with the orthogonal of this bisector). This condition can be achieved by rotating the rotator relative to the beam (if already polarized) or by placing a suitably oriented polarizer 16a. In all cases, and as before, the bisector of the neutral axes of the delay plate coincides with a neutral axis of the quarter-wave output plate.
- the third embodiment of the polarization rotator does not provide optical isolation.
- Fig. 6 illustrates an example of optical pump magnetometer according to the invention, realized in integrated form.
- This magnetometer advantageously uses a surface-emitting vertical cavity laser diode (VCSEL) 610, on which the first quarter-wave plate 620, the liquid crystal cell 630, the second quarter-wave plate 1, are successively arranged. 640, and the gas cell, 650.
- VCSEL vertical cavity laser diode
- the liquid crystal cell is sandwiched between the first and second quarter wave plates. It is delimited vertically by a first glass plate 631 and a second glass plate 632, and laterally by a spacer (eg cylindrical), 633, made of polymer. The cavity thus delimited is filled with a nematic liquid crystal.
- the nematic liquid crystal layer is a few microns thick.
- a conductive layer transparent to the wavelength of the laser (typically ITO), 634, is deposited on the upper surface of the first glass slide and on the lower surface of the second glass slide so as to be able to apply a voltage.
- An alignment layer, 635 for example of polyimide, is provided on the high and low transparent conductive layers so as to align the liquid crystal at rest.
- the gas cell, 650 is delimited vertically by a third glass plate 651 and a fourth glass plate 652, and laterally by a silicon spacer 653.
- the cavity thus delimited is filled for example with helium 4 He or an alkaline gas.
- Conductive wires 654 connected to the discharge circuit HF are provided for supplying electrodes 655 (located in silicon vias or on the edge of the cell) diametrically opposite in pairs from the axis of the cavity.
- the structure of the magnetometer is particularly compact and is unlikely to be misaligned or mechanically deformed.
- the materials used have a negligible magnetic signature.
- the signature of the polarization rotator is essentially due to the magnetic field created by the control signal of the liquid crystal cell. Indeed, in order to eliminate the migration of impurities towards the walls of the liquid crystal cell, the control signal is alternating and of frequency of the order of 100 Hz to 10 kHz (the effective amplitude of the signal controls the rotation polarization) and the maximum intensity of the displacement current is of the order of ten // A. Given the orders of quantities presented above, the signature of the control signal of the liquid crystal cell is less than ten p T and therefore perfectly negligible vis-à-vis B 0 .
- the integration of the magnetometer makes its manufacture compatible with a number of embodiments, which makes it possible to reduce its manufacturing costs by means of conventional micro-fabrication techniques of microelectronics.
- the magnetometer described above is a scalar magnetometer in the sense that, as has been said, it only makes it possible to measure the modulus B 0 of the ambient magnetic field B 0 .
- This vector magnetometer comprises an additional conductive winding, in other words, in all, three conductive windings surrounding the cell and whose axes form a rectangle trihedron, each winding being excited with a distinct frequency signal, ie F x for the Ox axis, F y along the axis Oy and F along the axis Oz, the currents in the three coils being controlled by means of servocontrol means.
- the principle of measurement is identical to that given in the aforementioned application.
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